STFC Capital Bid from the HEP Group to STFC 2013
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Particle physics requires fast, interactive computing to analyze the data collected at the experiments and to design future experiments. it also requires specialist equipment to test new detectors at the temperatures and pressures they will endure in future experiments. This grant will allow us to deal with rapidly growing data collections, and permit us to seek rarer and more subtle new physics effects; and will allow us to test new physics models by designing future experiments, which may also led to potential developments of use to commerce and industry.
Future long baseline neutrino experiments, including LBNE, are all investigating low temperature detectors. The cryogenic presure vessel system requested will allow Lancaster to engage in device development and testing within this programme.
Future long baseline neutrino experiments, including LBNE, are all investigating low temperature detectors. The cryogenic presure vessel system requested will allow Lancaster to engage in device development and testing within this programme.
Planned Impact
This bid acts as an enhancement to the impact summary of the previous consolidated grant award. The equipment may enable the development of detectors of wider application, including commercial applications. All of the activities enabled will be be able to engage in enhanced outreach activities, including public talks, colloquia, schools talks and press releases.
Publications
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new phenomena in photon + jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
ATLAS Collaboration
(2014)
Measurement of the centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the integrated elliptic flow in lead-lead collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2014)
Search for a multi-Higgs-boson cascade in W + W - b b ¯ events with the ATLAS detector in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2014)
Search for pair and single production of new heavy quarks that decay to a Z boson and a third-generation quark in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Collaboration T
(2014)
Monitoring and data quality assessment of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aad G
(2014)
Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of differential production cross-sections for a Z boson in association with b-jets in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2014)
Search for scalar diphoton resonances in the mass range 65-600 GeV with the ATLAS detector in pp collision data at vs=8 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the Z/? * boson transverse momentum distribution in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of the top-quark mass in the fully hadronic decay channel from ATLAS data at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Constraints on the off-shell Higgs boson signal strength in the high-mass ZZ and WW final states with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for invisible decays of the Higgs boson produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
ATLAS Collaboration
(2015)
Measurement of three-jet production cross-sections in [Formula: see text] collisions at 7 [Formula: see text] centre-of-mass energy using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2015)
Search for anomalous production of prompt same-sign lepton pairs and pair-produced doubly charged Higgs bosons with s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the branching ratio G ( ? b 0 ? ? ( 2 S ) ? 0 ) / G ( ? b 0 ? J / ? ? 0 ) with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of the production of neighbouring jets in lead-lead collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to a a in the µ µ t t final state in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair in multilepton final states with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of colour flow with the jet pull angle in t t ¯ events using the ATLAS detector at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Observation and measurement of Higgs boson decays to W W * with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2015)
Search for high-mass diboson resonances with boson-tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2015)
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the [Formula: see text] final state from pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeVwith the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
| Description | This has supported the ATLAS and ATLAS upgrade programmes and the LAr developments for neutrinos |
| Exploitation Route | The tracking work has applications in medical imaging etc |
| Sectors | Healthcare |
| Description | This technology work informs the Lancaster Particle physics packaged used by schools and for outreach |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | ATLAS |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN LHC ATLAS |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Tracking R&D and construction, software, distributed computing systems, detector operations, trigger performance and design, Standard Model, B-physics, Onium, Higgs, Top and SUSY studies; ran UK software and computing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detector operations, computing operations, software, shared physics tools |
| Impact | currently O(200) papers in press (Feb 2013) |
| Description | T2K |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborators, detector builders (ND280), operators |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators |
| Impact | Papers, detector R&D |
| Description | 5 Particle Physics Masterclasses/Residentials |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Increases interest in science and particle physics Increased applications to Lancaster, citing particle phsyics interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Big bang fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Big Bang Fair, general science exhibition at the NEC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| Description | Royal Society Summer Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | many thousands saw stands on the Grid/Higgs physics/Beyond the Higgs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2011,2014 |